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mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (UPDATED)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 23, 2023,

updated Jan 24, 2023

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Big Tech layoffs are in the news, you say?

On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my "department", such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from "clienteng" over to the "website" division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something.

That, uh, didn't happen.

At 8am on January 22, 1998, Netscape put out a press release announcing that the source code to the web browser would be released to the public at the end of March. This was the first that I had heard that this was even being considered.

Read on

=> ↺ Read On: Jamie Zawinski

Also: Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary [LWN.net]

=> ↺ Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary [LWN.net]

UPDATE

mozilla.org’s 25th anniversary

=> ↺ mozilla.org’s 25th anniversary

Before the millennium, Netscape was THE web browser to use. We’d laugh at Internet Explorer.

At 8am on January 22, 1998, Netscape put out a press release announcing that the source code to the web browser would be released to the public at the end of March.

Jamie Zawinski, one of the founders of Netscape (and of a whole bunch of neat stuff, often still used today) discusses how Mozilla came to be.

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